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Representative Justin Slaughter (D) - Previous General Assembly (100th)
27th District

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Springfield Office:
266-S Stratton Office Building
Springfield, IL 62706
(217) 782-0010
District Office:
1234 W. 95th St.
Chicago, IL 60643
(773) 445-9700
Email: justin@repslaughter.com

Years served: January 2017 - Present

Committee assignments: Approp-Elementary & Secondary Educ; Business Incentives for Local Comm.; Economic Justice & Equity (Vice-Chairperson); Energy; Judiciary - Criminal; Health & Healthcare Disparities (Vice-Chairperson); Police & First Responders; Restorative Justice; Criminal Admin and Enforcement; Sentencing, Penalties and Criminal; Social Change Subcommittee (Sub-Chairperson).

Biography: Full-time state legislator; Former Legislative Coordinator in the Offices of the Cook County Bureau of Administration and the Secretary to the Board of Commissioners; Former Policy Advisor for Governor Pat Quinn; Former Deputy Director at the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice; Former District Director for Cook County Commissioner Stanley Moore and Illinois State Senator Kwame Raoul; B.A., Political Science, University of Chicago; Master's of Public Policy and Administration, Northwestern University; A native Chicagoan, Slaughter grew up on the South Side in the Washington Heights community where he currently still resides.


Associated Senator(s): Emil Jones, III